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Saturday, July 11, 2009
Weekend Exposure
Question: What cheers me up when I am feeling blue?
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Just when I thought I was through
...this morning I was feeling scared. Rent and other bills are due this week and I feel like I have exhausted all options to come up with the $ to pay. As I set up for my yard sale, in hopes keeping the fires burning to run the company and "save myself" (from the fears I have about being evicted) I broke down. How did the dream come to this? What did I miss?
Leaning into the house, resting my forehead on the sage colored brick I sobbed and wondered what to do next. Be thankful is what came. I started saying thanks for what I have and for where I am and for my feelings. Soon a car pulled up....a friend....Giffi showed up with the brightest smile. She and her partner helped me finish getting things set up. She smiled again and said more are coming. Then two other friends Kat & Tammy showed up. More bright smiles. We laughed & they adjusted my pricing. A few people came and brought and/ or bought things.
Though the dollar goal was not met I feel happy. I was reminded that there are so many ways to feel abundant besides through monetary means. These 3 women are 3 of the women who first opened their hearts to me when I moved to Utah 8 years ago. I haven't seen them in almost as many years. What brought them TODAY? Perfect.
I wanted a song to express how I feel and LEAN ON ME came to mind. Bill Withers would have been fine...but Kirk Franklin popped up in the search. When I heard the song I cried.....my brother liked gospel and I heard this song last week when I made my last batch of ice cream. It fit then and fits today. I've posted the video on my facebook page: facebook.com/sproutandrhythm
I am wondering now how things will work out?
Leaning into the house, resting my forehead on the sage colored brick I sobbed and wondered what to do next. Be thankful is what came. I started saying thanks for what I have and for where I am and for my feelings. Soon a car pulled up....a friend....Giffi showed up with the brightest smile. She and her partner helped me finish getting things set up. She smiled again and said more are coming. Then two other friends Kat & Tammy showed up. More bright smiles. We laughed & they adjusted my pricing. A few people came and brought and/ or bought things.
Though the dollar goal was not met I feel happy. I was reminded that there are so many ways to feel abundant besides through monetary means. These 3 women are 3 of the women who first opened their hearts to me when I moved to Utah 8 years ago. I haven't seen them in almost as many years. What brought them TODAY? Perfect.
I wanted a song to express how I feel and LEAN ON ME came to mind. Bill Withers would have been fine...but Kirk Franklin popped up in the search. When I heard the song I cried.....my brother liked gospel and I heard this song last week when I made my last batch of ice cream. It fit then and fits today. I've posted the video on my facebook page: facebook.com/sproutandrhythm
I am wondering now how things will work out?
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Weekend Exposure
Question:
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Monday, July 6, 2009
Inspired Ice Cream: You've gotta BE nuts!
Good morning. Thank you for the dawn of a new day.
Yesterday I felt like I'd gotten my butt kicked. Though it wasn't the first time, it felt like the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back. For a moment, out in the hot summer sun, wanting to sell ice cream but hardly making a sale, thinking about the cost of being at yet another market event that wasn't panning out and all the money/ time that's been spent, the bills that are due this week and my neglected family... I thought, I QUIT! Then I went for a walk, phoned my mom (I'm so thankful for her wisdom and sense of humor). Knowing I wasn't anywhere close to really quitting, I sat on a cool stone bench for a while in the shade and regrouped.
I've decided to take a few days off and relax, read, spend time with my family and follow my impulses. I am realizing today that I let myself get lost in how to LAUNCH a small business... BIG! In my life, I've rarely play by other people's rules....this, of course was a sore spot at times with my parents and sometimes made relationships difficult. I like to think I've softened in my personal relationships. Yet, I am still unclear about the delicate balance point wanting to happen in business between a) unavailable (read: pushy/ bitch) and b) ambitious, compassionate féminin d'affaires.
For now, I feel its best to rest and get back in touch with the healthy, visionary me of which I feel I've lost site. And then.....WOW.....Inspired Ice Cream...round 22...DING!
BTW, "You've gotta be nuts" is a slogan that just popped into my head this morning. (kb ponders this for a moment then goes back to restfully reading a great book)
Yesterday I felt like I'd gotten my butt kicked. Though it wasn't the first time, it felt like the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back. For a moment, out in the hot summer sun, wanting to sell ice cream but hardly making a sale, thinking about the cost of being at yet another market event that wasn't panning out and all the money/ time that's been spent, the bills that are due this week and my neglected family... I thought, I QUIT! Then I went for a walk, phoned my mom (I'm so thankful for her wisdom and sense of humor). Knowing I wasn't anywhere close to really quitting, I sat on a cool stone bench for a while in the shade and regrouped.
I've decided to take a few days off and relax, read, spend time with my family and follow my impulses. I am realizing today that I let myself get lost in how to LAUNCH a small business... BIG! In my life, I've rarely play by other people's rules....this, of course was a sore spot at times with my parents and sometimes made relationships difficult. I like to think I've softened in my personal relationships. Yet, I am still unclear about the delicate balance point wanting to happen in business between a) unavailable (read: pushy/ bitch) and b) ambitious, compassionate féminin d'affaires.
For now, I feel its best to rest and get back in touch with the healthy, visionary me of which I feel I've lost site. And then.....WOW.....Inspired Ice Cream...round 22...DING!
BTW, "You've gotta be nuts" is a slogan that just popped into my head this morning. (kb ponders this for a moment then goes back to restfully reading a great book)
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Something touched me...
~Shauna~
"We can all go through life wishing our bodies were different, or we can remember the much more important areas: human connection, developing our minds and experiencing as much as possible in the short time we have. After all, we suffer the most from our insecurities." (P. 30)
This morning I took some time to read and relax. I'm so happy I did! I picked up a book a friend had loaned me some time ago "Bodies and Souls: The Century Project" (Frank Cordelle). It contains amazing photography! These women all tell their stories about life and their relationship to their body. Photographs of these women, of all ages, are done in the nude. It is moving and heart wrenching and wonderful. I highly recommend getting a copy!
"We can all go through life wishing our bodies were different, or we can remember the much more important areas: human connection, developing our minds and experiencing as much as possible in the short time we have. After all, we suffer the most from our insecurities." (P. 30)
This morning I took some time to read and relax. I'm so happy I did! I picked up a book a friend had loaned me some time ago "Bodies and Souls: The Century Project" (Frank Cordelle). It contains amazing photography! These women all tell their stories about life and their relationship to their body. Photographs of these women, of all ages, are done in the nude. It is moving and heart wrenching and wonderful. I highly recommend getting a copy!
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
And...BREATHE
Today I had a pre-investors meeting for Inspired and it went well. I learned a lot. There was a place inside me that knew, this is how I want to play...preparing for meetings with skeptics and convincing them that my product/ project is superior and enjoying wins through healthy competition. And still, I know, I am into something here that is waaay bigger than anything I've ever done. I have a wide range of emotions that pass through me everyday about that.
REWIND: I woke up feeling happy/ nervous about what was on the agenda. All of a sudden thoughts of my brother where with me. I was missing him. I was reminded that life is short....and that I should always go for it! I cried and for a time it seemed like I couldn't breathe. I called my cousin. It felt so good to linger in conversation with her, reminiscing and sharing what's up in the now. I am thankful.
REWIND: I woke up feeling happy/ nervous about what was on the agenda. All of a sudden thoughts of my brother where with me. I was missing him. I was reminded that life is short....and that I should always go for it! I cried and for a time it seemed like I couldn't breathe. I called my cousin. It felt so good to linger in conversation with her, reminiscing and sharing what's up in the now. I am thankful.
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